This morning I awoke after a good night’s sleep. After a hot shower, I had a hearty breakfast and a couple of cups of coffee, while I perused a magazine […]
Commentary
SKETCHBOOK
Cape Cod Catboat on the Provincetown Quadrangle
The map and sailboat are my interpretations in walnut ink on Quadrangle for Provincetown, Mass., 1972: U.S. Geological Survey. My work is overlaid on Eugene Zhukau’s cyanotype print of “Town […]
FLAG-WAVING
Stars, Stripes, and Sneetches
The ‘People’s Convoy’ calls to mind a Dr. Seuss classic
Barreling northeast on I-35 from Austin to Dallas in early March, my sister, husband, and I tried to ignore the flag-festooned caravan in the right lane. But we couldn’t avert […]
VIGNETTE
Garden Helpers
VIGNETTE
Love Nest
STEAMERS
It Just Keeps Going and Going…
TEACAKE'S TAKE
Divinity II
COUNTY LINE
Remembering Susan Quinones
An advocate for human rights who inspired by listening
Cape Cod lost a powerful leader last week, and I lost a dear friend and colleague. Susan L. Quinones, Esq., who was coordinator for the Barnstable County Human Rights Advisory […]
TEACAKE’S TAKE
Rites of Spring
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Finding the Exquisitely Small, Pick by Pick
Under the microscope ‘is where the magic happens’
Standing on the beach the other night, I gazed up at the ink-black sky pierced with stars and found myself thinking about infinity — endless space going on and up […]
VIGNETTE
Early Birds
UP A CREEK
GoFundWellfleet
The select board dreams up incentives to help save the town
Wellfleet officials recently described the town’s financial records as “a ball of yarn continually unraveling” and told this newspaper that “more than 1,000 errors were corrected in the town’s books […]
VIGNETTE
Peepers’ Orchestra
THE YEAR-ROUNDER
Lost in Town
After 50 years of navigation, still geographically challenged
I might as well confess it: I am geographically challenged. If you spent any time with me, you would know. Without a map, I have a hard time remembering where […]
CLASS ACTION
Recusal
David Comberg, Pamela Hovland, and Jacqueline Thaw are members of Class Action Collective, creating visual messages to advocate for social change. The group aims to challenge the way public issues are […]
